This is a curriculum designed for grades 2 – 8 that transforms your classroom into a learning lab about seventeenth-century Brooklyn. With primary sources including maps, diaries, cookbooks, account ledgers, and drawings, Dutch Breukelen contains resources and prompts that will spark and engage the curiosity of any New Yorker or Brooklyn-lover...
Throughout this lesson, students will read and discuss several aspects of Haudenosaunee tribal leadership and how they function. Students will draw comparisons between the processes of Haudenosaunee leadership and the laws and frameworks of the United States government as outlined in the Constitution.
Throughout this lesson, students will have the opportunity to learn about and experience the role that simple machines play in their daily lives. Students will examine various simple machines and what makes them go, and then participate in a school scavenger hunt to identify as many simple machines as they can.
Students will assess their carbon footprints and discuss actions that they’re currently taking to help combat climate...
Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books have been immensely popular in the decades since the writer’s death. Using the NYS Historical Association’s history newsletter, “The Story of Almanzo Wilder: Farmer Boy, Part...